Then יהוה said to Moses, “You shall soon see what I will do to Pharaoh: he shall let them go because of a greater might; indeed, because of a greater might he shall drive them from his land.”
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויאמר
257
יהוה
26
אלמשה
376
עתה
475
תראה
606
אשר
501
אעשה
376
לפרעה
385
כי
30
ביד
16
חזקה
120
ישלחם
388
וביד
22
חזקה
120
יגרשם
553
מארצוס
397
Exodus 6:2
Gematria: 1075
וידבראלהיםאלמשהויאמראליואנייהוה
God spoke to Moses and said to him, “I am יהוה.
Word-by-Word Analysis
וידבר
222
אלהים
86
אלמשה
376
ויאמר
257
אליו
47
אני
61
יהוה
26
Exodus 6:3
Gematria: 2320
ואראאלאברהםאליצחקואליעקבבאלשדיושמייהוהלאנודעתילהם
I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as El Shaddai, but I did not make Myself known to them by My name יהוה.
Say, therefore, to the Israelite people: I am יהוה. I will free you from the labors of the Egyptians and deliver you from their bondage. I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and through extraordinary chastisements.
And I will take you to be My people, and I will be your God. And you shall know that I, יהוה, am your God who freed you from the labors of the Egyptians.
But Moses appealed to יהוה, saying, “The Israelites would not listen to me; how then should Pharaoh heed me, me—who gets tongue-tied!” ” Cf. Lev. 19.23; Jer. 6.10.
Translation Notes
*who gets tongue-tied — Lit. “uncircumcised of lips,” which is not a claim to a permanent condition, contra NJPS “a man of impeded speech.
So יהוה spoke to both Moses and Aaron in regard to the Israelites and Pharaoh king of Egypt, instructing them to deliver the Israelites from the land of Egypt.
The following are the heads of their respective clans. The sons of Reuben, Israel’s first-born: Enoch Enoch Or “Hanoch”; cf. note at Gen. 46.9. and Pallu, Hezron and Carmi; those are the families of Reuben.
The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Saul Saul Or “Shaul”; cf. note at Gen. 46.10. the son of a Canaanite woman; those are the families of Simeon.
And Aaron’s son Eleazar took into his [household] as wife one of Putiel’s daughters, and she bore him Phinehas. Those are the heads of the ancestral houses of the Levites by their families.